Boadicea's Chariot

Neil Diamond

Just returned from a couple of days away and faced with a very busy week and a family get together here this coming weekend, I have an imminent hard disk failure. It hasn’t altogether give up the ghost but it’s most certainly exhibiting faults if I try to do anything more ambitious than emails or blogging. Continue reading “Never happened before!”

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

‘We are not there to produce fodder for industry’ so said a feminist teacher to me during a discussion in the seventies. This was a period of rising militancy in the teaching unions, and among feminists in particular. My argument that preparation of pupils for the world of work was an important function of the education industry was waved airily aside. Since those days, education has become increasingly distanced from industry and commerce.

I was reminded of this teacher’s dismissive attitude this morning, upon reading that British educated students are believed by numerous managers in industry to be inferior to immigrants as potential employees. Once again, numeracy and literacy are specified as problem areas.

In the mid-eighties I was the management development manager with a conglomerate in the East Midlands. That role involved me in the selection and development of young people who aspired to a management role. I found myself forced to introduce remedial training in literacy and numeracy for successful applicants who had good grades at ‘A’ levels in those areas.

Neil Diamond – I am, I said

It’s good to see Australia following the Old Country’s  lead.

We elect a hung parliament and they follow suit.  I never did buy all this about our two countries drifting apart.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne

Good night everyone, sleep well.

We will rock you!

My grandson, George, who started this summer afraid even to get his hair wet 🙂